Dmitry Furmanov

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Portrait of Dmitriy Furmanov by Sergey Malyutin

Dmitriy Andreyevich Furmanov (Russian: Дми́трий Андре́евич Фу́рманов; 7 November 1891 – 15 March 1926) was a Russian writer, revolutionary and military officer.

Biography

He was born to a peasant family. For three years, he attended the

Realschule in Kineshma. It was there that he developed an interest in literature. He pursued his interests at the Imperial Moscow University
but, after graduating in 1915, failed the state examinations.

During

Turkestan Front [ru]. There, he was instrumental in helping to quash a rebellion. After that he went to Kuban
, where he was seriously injured.

After his recovery, in 1921, he returned to Moscow, where he was employed by several organizations dealing with military publications and he completed his education at

Moscow University. After 1923, he worked for "Gosizdat", a publisher of propaganda. He also worked for the Moscow Association of Proletarian Writers [ru
] (МАПП).

He died of meningitis and is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery. In 1941, the town of Sereda, where he was born, was renamed Furmanov after him.

Despite the affair with his wife, he is best known for his novel about Chapayev. It was translated into English by George and Jeanette Kittell and issued by Foreign Languages Publishing House in 1940.

Awards

Order of the Red Banner. (1922)

See also

External links

  • The Chapayev book
  • "Dmitry Furmanov". Find a Grave. Retrieved August 30, 2010.